Passive Aggressive Disorders

Passive Aggressive Disorders

Passive-Aggressive Personality types often sabotage various areas of their life in the sense that they complain about demands that are put on them. They may not voice their complaints but they are cussing them out in their minds and the person or thing that made them do the work.

Passive-Aggressive types are exactly as the name implies. They are often passive outwards, but aggressive inwards. These people often anger others around them, yet the person may feel wrong for not being clear on the foundation that caused the anger. These types of people are also deceiving as they use obscure tactics in persecuting others.

For example, say Troy confronts Kelly expressing to him that her behaviors were wrong and that they were causing problems. Kelly looks at Troy with a glare tells Kelly that he is the problem. Kelly says she did what she was supposed to and that he did nothing wrong that Troy doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

This disorder often causes controversy and is often disputed, but the term is used frequently.

Self-Defeating Personality Disorders often associate with person that will cause harm to persecute the person or self-defeat them. This person will also excuse another person’s offer to help them even if the help is needed. This type of person may also anger others around them and then display hurt when they are confronted. These two personality types are not able to hold permanent relationships in most cases and will make excuses for their behavior.

Sadistic Personality Disorders were recently removed from the DSM manual because of a lack of foundation for diagnosis. The symptoms included not being able to control their behavior. These people are violent and will harm others to uphold control over another person. This disorder is similar to psychopathic and antisocial personality disorders and may rejoice when they hurt other people or animals. Even if the person

is submissive, the person will often torture or hurt others because it gives them pleasure. Persons that suffer from this disorder are often survivors of abuse and are angry at the world around them. These individuals cannot typically maintain a relationship and will hurt the person involved in their life.

Conclusion

Relating to others with mental illness can be difficult. If you have a mental illness then the only people who often understand you may be your therapist or doctor and even those people will sometimes fail. Many patients will complain that their therapist is not helping them and they will complain about the medication and treatment they receive. The problem is that there is a communication breakdown between the two people and patients do not always do their best to follow instructions and listen to their therapist.

Often when a patient complains there is a reason and something is not working somewhere. It is important that if the patient is complaining of voices or hallucinations telling them things, you must listen to them as they can become dangerous. Do not simply push it away and call them crazy. You will often have to read between the lines with patients. It is important that they are understood and that they are listened to so that you can help them cope with their problems and symptoms.